Word: zeroed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...transports at Thamarit, which has one of the longest runways in the world, and U.S. Navy fighters from aircraft carriers in the Indian Ocean may practice missions in support of the Omani air force's Hawker Hunter and Jaguar fighter-bombers based at Thamarit. But this time with zero news coverage...
Besides the standard choices of savings deposits, stocks, bonds and mutual funds, financial advisers are now nudging clients toward such exotic new fare as zero-coupon bonds, seven-day bank C.D.s, and brokerage-house deposit certificates. With such a variety to choose from, even professionals are befuddled. Says Gary Strum, a vice president at the E.F. Mutton investment firm: "You need an M.B.A. degree to understand what the banks and institutions are offering nowadays...
...stunted form of journalism. For a TV network reporter, who needs to worry about pictures at the expense of time for briefing and nuance, the problems are especially acute. Woodruff particularly chafed at "staging stakeouts along the White House driveway in boiling heat or pouring rain or sub-zero dawn, never knowing when a news subject is going to leave, or by what exit, or if you catch him, whether he will have anything...
...subject as technical and globally dangerous as nuclear war, it borders on demagoguery to offer, in referendum form, one simple solution to the problem. To argue, as one supporter did, that a freeze "is easily verifiable, because you can always detect zero," reflects an ignorance or a confidence inappropriate for the matter. Such arguments take advantage of gut-level fears and channel them towards superficially appealing solutions...
From a tactical point of view, had the minority law students succeeded in keeping enrollment in the course to zero, you can bet they would be talking quite loudly about their achievement. And if 59 students seems rather high, it is hardly in the BLSA's interest to argue the numbers. But it is nevertheless crucial that they take a close look at the 59 students who disregarded a civil rights boycott to take a civil rights course. For better or worse, these men and women may be typical of the civil rights movement's national audience in the years...